To my whining friends on the left, another example, among thousands, of why even if you think the Dems are wusses, you should still care enough to beat the GOP.
Regulators flawed in foreclosure oversight www.washingtonpost.com
Here’s another reason progressives should stop whining about the Democrats and consider the horrors of the alternative Will GOP gains halt a regulatory renaissance? www.slate.com
Stop the nonsense and call Olbermann's show what it is. A way out of the objectivity-in-cable-news morass. www.slate.com
As might be expected; Kinsley agrees with me about Olbermann (and Williams) Opinion: The absurdity of Olbermann's sin – Michael Kinsley www.politico.com
Chait recalls Kinsley (in 1994) explaining why people think their taxes went up when they went down, and then explains why it happened again. Mostly it's the lamestream media, which apparently ain't so liberal. A Materialist Interpretation Of The 1994 And 2010 Elections | The New Republic www.tnr.com
Douthat manages a far more damning analysis of the GOP than any Democrat, probably because it takes one to know one. The only non-ideological thing he gets wrong is his assertion that the GOP's emptiness profits no one, since it seems to have paid them a great dividend.The Unready Republicans www.nytimes.com
Frum adds his reality check to Douthat's. GOP won't deal, health care law won't change www.cnn.com
More proof of the Frum/Douthat indictment of the GOP: The only cuts DeMint will embrace are those which increase the deficit. xpostfactoid: Priceless DeMint
If Hitch says spare Aziz, who in their right minds would want to execute him? The death sentence for Saddam henchman Tariq Aziz threatens Iraq's fragile democracy. www.slate.com
Hertzberg: The result is a kind of political cognitive dissonance. Frightened by joblessness, “the American people” rewarded the party that not only opposed the stimulus but also blocked the extension of unemployment benefits. Alarmed by a ballooning national debt, they rewarded the party that not only transformed budg…et surpluses into budget deficits but also proposes to inflate the debt by hundreds of billions with a permanent tax cut for the least needy two per cent. Frustrated by what they see as inaction, they rewarded the party that not only fought every effort to mitigate the crisis but also forced the watering down of whatever it couldn’t block. What voters in the midterm elections were thinking : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com